“Please Hold Your Questions”: A Culture of Asking Questions as Criticism and Authority
At the dinner table, my father asked the priest if he could pour him a warm Coke. The priest, a distant family relative and…
Read MoreAt the dinner table, my father asked the priest if he could pour him a warm Coke. The priest, a distant family relative and…
Read MoreAt the end of our interview Ryan Gander is suggesting we meet again, “Same time next week?” He’s laughing. I’ve involuntarily submitted myself to…
Read More“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
Read MoreA young architect in Berlin recently argued to me that working with refugees on a design-build project could lend it more credibility and political…
Read MoreEverything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
Read MoreIn 1989, amid fevered debates about multiculturalism and national identity, a group of Black women artists came together to organize an exhibition featuring artistic…
Read More“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…
Read MoreSpending time in a museum after it closes to the public holds a certain wonder. There is something invigorating about turning up where you…
Read MoreNot very long ago I read Toni Morrison’s Home. This, her tenth novel, chronicles the wayward journey of a young war veteran, Frank Money,…
Read MoreI met Didier William in the fall of 2018, when he came to Pratt Institute to critique our undergraduate students. Didier and I talked…
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